Syrian refugees in Turkey fall to 11,100

The number of Syrians taking refuge at tent cities in Turkey has decreased to 11,122 after several hundred people went back home, Turkish officials said Monday."On June 26-27, 375 of those who had crossed to our country returned home of their own free will, while another 39 Syrian citizens were admitted in," the emergency situations agency said on its website.The statement said 51 people, including 15 with gunshot wounds, remained in hospital.

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The number of Syrian refugees taking shelter in tent cities in Turkey has decreased to 10,757 after several hundred people turned back home, Turkish officials said Tuesday."On June 27-28, 441 of those who had crossed to our country returned home of their own free will, while another 76 Syrian citizens were admitted in," the emergency situations agency of the prime minister's office said on its website.The statement said 53 people, including 12 with gunshot wounds, remained in hospital.

Syrian refugees sheltering in Turkish camps say they are grateful to Turkey for offering them refuge from bloody unrest, but many also miss their homes and some are starting to return.The number of Syrians sheltering at tent cities in Turkey's border province of Hatay decreased to 11,122 after 375 people went home of their own accord on Sunday and Monday, Turkish officials said.

SURUC, Turkey — Some 130,000 Syrian refugees fleeing the advance of Islamic State militants have crossed the border into Turkey in the past four days, Turkey’s deputy prime minister said Monday, warning that the number could rise further as the militants continue their onslaught.

Turkey has begun extending aid across its border with Syria to help people who have massed there fleeing unrest, the emergency situations agency said Sunday."Distribution of humanitarian aid has begun to meet the urgent food needs of Syrian citizens waiting on the Syrian side of our border," the statement, posted on the agency's website, said.It was the first time that the Turkish authorities had launched a cross-border aid mission after having sheltered more than 10,000 Syrian refugees in tent cities on Turkish territory.

Syrians fearful of reprisals poured out of a northern town at the centre of anti-government protests on Wednesday as pressure on President Bashar al-Assad grew at the UN Security Council.Some of those fleeing the town of Jisr al-Shughur sought sanctuary in neighbouring Turkey after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country would not turn away Syrian refugees.About 60 Syrians, three of them wounded, crossed into Turkey on Wednesday, bringing to some 450 the number of people taking refuge in the country, an AFP reporter witnessed.

Akçakale (Turkey) (AFP) - Turkish security forces on Saturday used water cannon and fired warning shots to push Syrians back from the frontier as thousands massed at a border crossing to escape escalating fighting, an AFP photographer said.

Pipes, ammonium nitrate, and other bomb-making materials are being transported across Turkey's border into Syria by agents of ISIS while Turkish border guards look the other way — and Ankara hasn't been willing to do much about it.

The number of Syrians who have taken refuge in Turkey to escape bloody unrest in their country has increased to about 10,100, Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.The figure went up after another 421 Syrians, mostly women and children, arrived at tent cities that the Turkish Red Crescent has erected in the border province of Hatay, Anatolia said.Turkish authorities have barred all outside access to the refugees accommodated in the camps.

RAMTHA, JORDAN — Like many of their fellow Jordanians, Hamzi Dardur and his two friends initially welcomed the Syrians who began surging across the nearby border last year. After all, their neighbours were fleeing one of the nastiest civil wars the region has ever seen.
Now, the young men are not feeling so magnanimous.